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January 2, 2017 at 03:09PM A London university’s most senior academic is to be reinvestigated for alleged research misconduct after being cleared by a similar inquiry last year, the Guardian has learned. Prof David Latchman, a prominent geneticist and master of Birkbeck, University of London, was found to have “no case to answer” by an

January 2, 2017 at 08:14AM A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. St. Augustine We’ve always had a tendency to defer to what is most magnificently spoken and shun that which is badly uttered but now it’s a thing. To much fan fare, ‘post truth’ has entered the

January 2, 2017 at 03:21AM When the nominations for pop music’s Brit awards – an event considered so central to public life that it will be broadcast live on terrestrial television – are announced this month, there should be only one question that needs answering. Will the UK’s record industry finally acknowledge “grime” as this

January 1, 2017 at 11:42PM Here are the 10 most viewed posts of last year. Only half of them were actually written last year and some of them are several years old. I reckon this must in part be due to the fact that there are so many links to some of my older posts knocking

January 1, 2017 at 09:51PM “My name is Kit and I’m 12 years old. I live in a house with my mum and dad, and our dog, Pickle. When I was born, the doctors told my mum and dad that they had a baby girl, and so for the first few years of my life

January 1, 2017 at 09:30PM Not all working-class children want to be middle or upper class. says Garth Stahl, the author of Identity, Neoliberalism and Aspiration… emphasising that education is about changing people and not everyone wants to change. We are defined by where we are in the rat race and that is where we feel